• Rubruck (Dutch: Willem van Rubroeck; Latin: Gulielmus de Rubruquis; fl. 1248–1255) or Guillaume de Rubrouck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer...
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    Seigneur de Caudry (1347). Adam, dit Flament, Seigneur de Caudry, bailli du Cambrésis (1360). Pierre de Caudry (died in 1424). Guillaume de Viefville...
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    lords appointed: Jean de Mons, followed in 1446 by Jean Parding; in 1451, the Lord de Haubourdin, in 1459, Guillaume Delcourt/De Le Court, in 1465, François...
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    chef-lieu of two cantons and the third largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with nearly 99,000 inhabitants. Together with...
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    physician and anatomist François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (c. 1651–1715), appointed Archbishop of Cambrai in 1695 Guillaume Dubois (c. 1656–1723), known...
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